The Beesley Buzz: April 2015

Bucket list dreams

Apparently seeing the northern lights is top of most bucket lists... and it is certainly something we would love to do. But we have put together our top three destinations that we would love to go to - our bucket list dreams. And our dreams are of extremes... 1. Deep jungle Heading...

Clay crafts with Kirby

We were mega excited to hear about the forthcoming release of a new Kirby game. Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush is exclusively for Wii U and is due for release on 8th May 2015. To celebrate this exciting news, those fab people at Nintendo sent us an amazing pack of craft...

Kids in the Kitchen: Baking disaster Hot Cross Buns

You may recall that we had a good Easter this year. A very good Easter. But one thing that didn't turn out too well was making our own Hot Cross Buns. I feel really glad that this was the year that we finally got around to having a go at making some. But sadly they didn't turn...

GIVEAWAY and Review: ShoutyKid 2 - How Harry Riddles Mega-Massively Broke The School

You may remember us getting very excited reviewing the first ShoutyKid book last year: How Harry Riddles made a Mega-Amazing Zombie Movie. We loved that book. It was just the kind of book that my boys really enjoy reading. A fun light-hearted read that is sure to have them giggling. So...

Ruby Redfort Feel the Fear...finished at last!

We started reading this book before Christmas and with a whopping 57 chapters it really is a long read but we enjoyed every chapter. As we hadn't got around to doing a full review in December, we wanted to finish what we started and let you know what we thought of the whole book...

Book review: Before The Fire, by Sarah Butler

Review by Richard Beesley. It's the summer of 2011 and Stick and Mac have plans. Both almost eighteen, they are leaving Manchester for a new life in Spain. They've planned their extended trip, bought the barely-working car, planned the route through England, France and Spain,...

Easter 2015

A bit of a photo heavy post today capturing Easter memories... A few good pics of all three of them together so will be linking up with Siblings for April. Also plenty of outdoor fun in our annual easter egg hunt organised by granny and grandad so will be linking up to the next Country...

These are some things that are #BetterWithCake

To the tune of 'These are a few of my favourite things': Painting and colouring and playing board games, Running and jumping and singing nursery rhymes, Easter crafts that are such fun to make, These are some things that are #BetterWithCake Birthdays and tea parties and teddy...

Butternut squash 'boats' and roasted veg with wholegrain basmati and quinoa

This recipe was entirely inspired by veg that needed using up found lurking in the bottom of my fridge. Thanks to Tilda rice sending some of the products from their latest range I was able to make even Brussels sprouts taste good! This recipe can actually be presented...

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